I used to love reddit, about a decade ago. It’s been enshittified so much now that I don’t enjoy using it. I went back there the other day, and my account inbox had several messages, even though I haven’t posted there in months. All engagement bots asking inane questions.
I still miss some of the community and elements that made me an avid user for so long, but I’m not gonna support a company that shits on it’s users this much, with a CEO who constantly makes me nauseous trying to impress his fascist billionaire buddies. More of the filth that has utterly destroyed the America i grew up in.
I’ll never forgive any of these greedy fuckers for what they’ve done after being rewarded with ungodly luxury by the society that they now grind into dust. I thought when push came to shove they’d be a voice of reason and moderation and free speech and act as another check on power to maintain a system that obviously was already doing quite well for them. How fucking stupid i was.
The people were what made it great. It was the best place to go to get opinions or advice from people. Once the platform started controlling what people could say, and how they could do it (APIs), that’s when shit went south. And now it’s not even really people anymore.
Same here - I was on Reddit for close to 20 years. After the purge, I had to stop because it literally became unbearable. Reddit is now fake dead pet pity posts, brain dead relationship outrage baiting, unintelligible post titles and comments, and barely obfuscated advertising.
Apparently, it’s more profitable than ever; a monument to enshitification.
I’ve only been off reddit for 6 months or so, but I went back recently, and was amazed at the amount of clickbait type post, like the ones that you see on Facebook from some random account you don’t follow, just obvious engagement farming with no quality, I wondered if it had been like that for a while and I just hadn’t noticed.
Reddit is the new Facebook. Soon to be followed by AI. Knowledge for the ignorant. Quacks.
I used to love reddit, about a decade ago. It’s been enshittified so much now that I don’t enjoy using it. I went back there the other day, and my account inbox had several messages, even though I haven’t posted there in months. All engagement bots asking inane questions.
I still miss some of the community and elements that made me an avid user for so long, but I’m not gonna support a company that shits on it’s users this much, with a CEO who constantly makes me nauseous trying to impress his fascist billionaire buddies. More of the filth that has utterly destroyed the America i grew up in.
I’ll never forgive any of these greedy fuckers for what they’ve done after being rewarded with ungodly luxury by the society that they now grind into dust. I thought when push came to shove they’d be a voice of reason and moderation and free speech and act as another check on power to maintain a system that obviously was already doing quite well for them. How fucking stupid i was.
The people were what made it great. It was the best place to go to get opinions or advice from people. Once the platform started controlling what people could say, and how they could do it (APIs), that’s when shit went south. And now it’s not even really people anymore.
Same here - I was on Reddit for close to 20 years. After the purge, I had to stop because it literally became unbearable. Reddit is now fake dead pet pity posts, brain dead relationship outrage baiting, unintelligible post titles and comments, and barely obfuscated advertising.
Apparently, it’s more profitable than ever; a monument to enshitification.
This is the year of enshittification and evil supervillains.
I’ve only been off reddit for 6 months or so, but I went back recently, and was amazed at the amount of clickbait type post, like the ones that you see on Facebook from some random account you don’t follow, just obvious engagement farming with no quality, I wondered if it had been like that for a while and I just hadn’t noticed.
If you read their quarterly reports, they make vague references to “machine translation” and “foreign markets” propping up their business.
Reddit’s English language clientele is dying, but the Indian is skyrocketing.
My inactive reddit account never has engagement bots spamming me! Should I be offended?
It may depend on the subreddits you subscribe to. Some have way more than others.
Oh, that explains it, I unsubbed from them all.